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Where to find protocol for Willem or EzFlash programmers?

HellO!

 I have a Willem-compatible EPROM/FLASH/MCU/Whatever necessary programmer. I have some software with it, but guess - windows only. (no, it doesn't run on my WINE).  I decided to write my own application (at least for the basic MCUs, like AVRs and 89C*051), but I stuck at the protocol.  My question is: is there any documentation on how to program this kind of programmer? I found, that some LPT lines control VCC and VPP but that's how far I got.  Any help would be greatly appreciated,   best regards, 
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 Pawel Kraszewski
 www.kraszewscy.net
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Pawel Kraszewski
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You might let the WINE people know, to see if they want to queue it up to add to their compatibility list.

Good Luck! Rich

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Rich Grise

I still insist on doing it myself :) The how-tos on the net are for ancient versions of WINE - I rely on a newer one.

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 Pawel Kraszewski
 www.kraszewscy.net
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Pawel Kraszewski

Did you buy it on ebay by any chance ?

Why not use Windows ? Do you really want to re-invent the wheel ?

Graham

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Eeyore

No, directly from producer. Very cute design with intechangable sockets varying from simple 8-pin DIP socket up to profi ZIF sockets for SMD devices.

Want to donate me one? If yes, I'd like to have 64-bit XP Pro. Or better,

64-bit 2003 Server :)

But seriously - those windows programming programs (yuck!):

  1. Have *UGLY* gui
  2. Are close-sourced (mostly)
  3. Aren't easy expandable
  4. Don't quite work on X86_64 platform
  5. Need CPU-expensive emulation on Linux (if work at all - they don't on my system)

My plan is like that:

  1. Nice, customizable full screen GUI
  2. Do it open-source
  3. Move programming algorithms out of main application to independent modules (or better, describe algo as an XML file)
4&5. Do it in platform-independent way (preferably Java) so just hardware- dependent code would be native (just a ParPort access)

Having it in Java - perhaps it would be relative easy to incorporate it in some framework, for example Eclipse. Imagine develop->compile->program process in a single IDE !!

I wouldn't call it re-inventing a wheel... Mr Dunlop didn't re-invent wheel - he just made it way more comfortable to use :D

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 Pawel Kraszewski
 www.kraszewscy.net
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Pawel Kraszewski

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